I've been struggling with it for a while now. It's exhausting having brief illusions of what it's like to be happy or "normal" before it slowly creeps over you time after time and takes control of your life. I hope everyone manages to find the peace they deserve.

ah nevermind then

thanks for the suggestion and clarifying. I'll be sure to try that out

I'm using the fk14' at the moment but I've used the fk1 in the past months with the same issue. Do you have any recommendations for a lower friction pad. I've always read people saying that their fk was fine on a qck so I never really questioned it.

I bought the qck around December and I've been washing the mousepad with soap and warm water like bi-monthly since June.

Does anyone have any recommendations for this? I use the FK with a qck mousepad. The stock mouse feet last a week or two before the mouse starts to feel uncomfortable because of the friction. I also tried out hyperglides and they felt like an improvement but I'm only a month in and I had to switch them out. I'm not sure why my mouse feet are wearing out so quickly when other people don't seem to be having this issue.

It depends on the context of said log. Like Comanglia mentioned, it wouldn't be hard to pull off ridiculous accuracy if you offclass to sniper for a few minutes and only shoot a couple of times. The person mentioned in OP's post has stupid accuracy across the board (for the full 24 minutes) and it doesn't seem to me like he was playing really conservatively to preserve his accuracy when he goes 24-4 in 8 mins as scout (which was more frags than what anyone in the server got with the full 24 mins). It doesn't seem too far fetched to me when his shots are far more suspicious than any high level player I've seen in lobbies (imo) and he's hitting accuracy like this.

I posted here more or less about a week ago but I was hoping everyone can take one final look at my build before I end up purchasing it sometime this week. Also, does anyone know if it would be worth waiting until Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Some adjustments I made: I swapped out the R9 280X for a 290 by someone's suggestion and opted to invest another 90 or so for a 144hz monitor. I don't necessarily have a set budget but I'm trying to keep it around $1000. I'm just hoping to run TF2/CS:GO/Dota 2 consistently at 120+ FPS with no drops.

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CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($208.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Enermax ETS-T40-TB 86.7 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z97M-ITX/AC Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard ($122.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Team Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($68.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.68 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 4GB Tri-X Video Card ($249.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Fractal Design Core 1300 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($39.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($44.99 @ Micro Center)
Monitor: BenQ XL2411Z 144Hz 24.0" Monitor ($244.99 @ NCIX US)
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thanks setsul! This is my first build so that was really helpful! I'm probably going to go with the micro-ATX build so I could overclock. Any thoughts on the monitor too? I haven't seen a lot of threads on 60hz monitors on tf.tv or if I do there's a lot of mixed opinions

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Motherboard: MSI H97 Guard-Pro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($102.07 @ Mwave)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($84.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($53.68 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 770 2GB DirectCU II Video Card ($259.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: Rosewill Hive 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Monitor: Asus VN247H-P 23.6" Monitor ($164.30 @ Amazon)
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Total: $1058.62
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Anyone have any suggestions/opinions on how I could improve this (possibly make cheaper)?

Well, I played L4D2 a couple of days ago and it felt about the same. I would set my sensitivity as low as possible and it would still feel uncomfortably high.

Well, a couple of months/weeks ago I would experience weirder sensitivity issues. My sensitivity felt like it would randomly speed up or slow down. It became really obvious when I rocket jumped since I was using 9ish inches. It would either take up most of my mousepad or all I would have to do is a tiny flick (now it feels like it's just consistently sped up).

I recently cleaned my mousepad and the sensor the other day. And I use those exact mouse settings except I set m_mousespeed 0. I heard those those launch options only work for older versions of Windows but I have tried it in the past and found it didn't really help.

I've already had Steam Cloud disabled for quite a while, haha. I've been re-installing TF2 quite a lot the past month to try and fix this also. I also re-installed windows yesterday and installed TF2 on a brand new account. By having raw input settings in autoexec, do you just mean put m_rawinput 1 in autoexec? I'll try that out and see how it goes.

Thanks, but I've tried this a couple of times on different occasions and it doesn't remove that feeling. I use a SteelSeries QcK which I bought around the same time as the Zowie which was pretty recent so I don't think it would have worn out that much. I also tried just playing on printer paper (lol) since I was getting kind of desperate and it didn't seem to make a difference.

I've tried nearly every conventional method of turning mouse acceleration off that most searches would lead me to (EPP off, raw input, mouse acceleration off in-game) but nothing seems to work. My mouse just always feels uncomfortably fast/slippery even at 9in/360 and lowering my sensitivity doesn't seem to make a difference. I also use a Zowie FK so the acceleration shouldn't be caused by the mouse. Anyone have suggestions or a possible solution to fix this?

Does anyone know if mouse acceleration negates or stacks on top of mouse acceleration? I swear with raw input on I feel negative accel and with raw input off I get varying instances of mouse accel. Would possibly installing something like the QL mouse accel driver negate this? just a thought...